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I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
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When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it BECAUSE it is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Not paying a just wage, not giving work,
only because one is looking at the bottom line,
at the budget of the company, seeking only profit -
that is against God.
- Pope Francis
I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
to the third and fourth generations.
- Exodus 20:5
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to
remember seven generations in the past and
consider seven generations in the future
when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,
no longer lend your strength to that
which you wish to be free from.
Fill your life with love and bravery,
and you shall live a life uncommon.
- Jewel
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
Peace is its own reward.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
Don't talk about what you have done
or what you are going to do.
- Thomas Jefferson
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
We may have all come on different ships,
but we're in the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
I just want to do God's will.
And he's allowed me to go to the mountain.
And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land!
I may not get there with you,
but I want you to know tonight that
we as a people will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation
also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
It isn't enough to talk about peace.
One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it.
One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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